Railway angle-bar.



w. B. MILLER.

w RAILWAY ANGLBBAB.

APPLIOA'IIOR FILED JULY 24, 1918.

Patented May 19, 1914.

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Inventor Attorneys onirnn sT r sPA rENToFFioE.

WILLIAM E. MILLER, OF PALISADE, NEVADA.

RAILWAY ANGLE-BAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 24, 1913. Serial No. 781,021.

To all {whom it may concern 3e it known that I, lVILLIA E. MILLER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Palisade, in the county ofEureka and State of Nevada, have invented new and useful RailwayAngle-Bars, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in railway anglebars, oneobject of the invention being the provision of an ofi'set to be formedby lengthening the central portion of the standard angle bar now in use,the said central offset portion to fit the web of the rail and have itstwo ends lie flat against such web for the purpose of closing the endsof the chamber formed by the oifset portion and the adjacent portion ofthe rail web for containing a lubricant, said angle bar being properlyconnected to the web of the two rails at the joint to permit of thenecessary expansion and contraction.

A further object of the present invention is 'the provision ofananglebarprovided with lubricant apertures leading to such chamber of the bar, sothat lubricant may be supplied thereto and be held against the web ofthe rail to prevent the freezing of rail joints dueto the rusting orcorroding between the angle bars and the rails.

\Vith the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear asthe-description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within thescope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

In the drawings1*igure 1 is a view in elevation of the angle bar appliedto a rail joint. Fig. 2 is a section taken on line 2-2 thereof. Fig. 3is a side elevation of the angle bar. Fig. t is a View from the oppositeside thereof.

Referring to the drawings, the numerals 1 and 2 designate the two rails,3 a tie plate mounted upon the tie l, and 6 the two angle bars which arethe medium used for connecting the rail joints in proper position.

Each of the angle bars, as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4, is providedwith the ofiset ends 7 which when such bars are positioned, as shown inFigs. 1 and 2, provide the lubricant containing compartments 8 one uponeach side of the web of the rail and between the inner faces of theangle bars, the lower end of each angle bar being positioned upon thebase of the rail while the upper edge is adjacent to and in closeproximity to the under side of the head of the rail.

The apertures or bolt holes 9 are formed in the angle bar for thereception of the bolts 10, so that the bars are properly secured uponeach side of the rail and hold the rail joints in proper position.

To provide a means, whereby the compartments' or chambers 8 may besupplied with lubricant, the apertures 11 are formed through the body ofthe plate abovethe bolt holes or as near the upper edge as possible sothat the lubricant may be injected therein.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings,it is evident that with an angle 'bar constructed according to thepresent invention and mounted so as to contain the lubricant, as shownin Fig. 2, that the face of the angle bar will be held in contact withthe adj oining portions of the rails and even though forced intocontact, will be properly lubricated so that the usual corrosion whichtakes place will not cause a cohesion of the parts and thus render itdif ficult for the rails to expand or contract.

VVhatis claimed is:

1. An angle bar having inturned ends for engaging the web of the railand an interme diate compartment sealed by the ends and the web of therail for the reception of a lubricant.

2. The combination with two rails, of two angle'bars for securing thejoints thereof together, each of said bars having two iii-- turned endsfor engaging the webs of the rails and an intermediate portion out ofcontact with the web of the rail and forming with the t-woends. and thewebs of the rails two oppositely disposed lubricant containers.

3. The combination with two rails, of two angle bars for securing thejoints thereof together, each of said bars having two inturned ends forengaging the webs of the rails and an intermediate portion out ofcontact with the web of the rail, and both angle Patented May 1 9, 1914.

bars and the rails forming with the two ends my own, I have heretoaifixed my signature of each bar and the Webs of the rmls two f in thepresence of two witnesses. v oppositely disposed 1ubr1c ant containers 5i each bar being provlded Wljlh an aperture IILLIXM MILLLI 5 wherebylubrlcant is supphed to its con- \Vitnesses:

miner. M. H. VEBER,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as J. WVEBER.

